“ And again he said,Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? ”
See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31-32 .
A Woman Healed on the Sabbath. (Lk. only; cf. Luke 6:1-11 ). Loisy is too fanciful in connecting this section with what precedes by suggesting that as the barren tree stands for unrepentant Isra...
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Matthew 13:31-33 , with Remarks.
The Galileans killed by Pilate. The Unfruitful Fig Tree. Lament Over Jerusalem 1-9. Three exhortations to repentance, of which the former two are based on recent events, and the third is a parable...
(18-21) Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? — See Notes on Matthew 13:31-33 . The first impression with most readers, in the absence of any apparent trace of sequence, is that we h...
the Penalty of Neglected Opportunity Luke 13:18-30 Notice here the inward movement and the outward effect of the gospel whether in the heart or in the world of men. The garden and the kitchen,...
Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great t...
THE GOSPEL IN THE HEART ‘Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven.’ Luke 13:20-21 The parable of the leaven is intended to show the progress of the Gospel in the heart o...
And again he said ,.... That is, Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it; besides the parable of the grain of mustard seed, that also of the leaven hid in three measures of meal: where...
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Ver. 20. See Matthew 13:33 .
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? After the Lord had thus silenced the ruler of the synagogue, and while he observed the rejoicings of the people, he reflected with pleasure on th...
REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14...
The Widow of Nain. 18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? 19 It is like a grai...
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The Kingly Rule of God Will Grow From Small Beginnings Just as A Mustard Seed Becomes a Great Bush And A Little Leaven Leavens The Whole Lump (13:18-21). Having revealed how Jesus can loose men fr...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 13:19 . Like a grain of mustard seed .—So small in size as to be a proverbial comparison among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. Garden .— Matthew 13:31 has “field....
Luke 13:6 . He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by prof...
Luke 13:1 . There were some present at that season of the passover, that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. Though this might be blood for blood,...
It Is like leaven The hidden leaven The kingdom of heaven, or the work of God in the soul, is like leaven. 1. It at once occurs to us that leaven is something foreign to and different from t...
EXPOSITION Luke 13:1-42 Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree. Luke 13:1 There were present at that sea...
Parables and Teachings. The parables of the mustard-seed and the leaven:
Matthew 13:33 .